I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. My dissertation aims to understand how evolving populations sustain continual adaptation in a changing environment using a mix of computational, theoretical, and experimental methods.
More broadly, I’m interested in
- Understanding how living systems (real or artificial) evolve and adapt to environmental challenge in creative ways,
- Developing methods to steer evolution towards certain outcomes using synthetic biology and directed evolution in order to find solutions to modern day problems, and
- Creating undergraduate and graduate coursework that emphasizes strong interdisciplinarity in the study of life.
An idea of the kind of problems that interest me can be gathered from the research page. My free time is generally spent reading, tinkering, listening to music, cooking new recipes, or learning new things.